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Local Government Association Offers Digital Connectivity Grants

14th October, 2020 (5 Comments)

The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents hundreds of councils from across England and Wales, has started offering some seemingly small grants to help local authorities plan for and improve 4G, 5G and “full fibre” broadband network coverage across their areas.

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Cumbria and Northumberland Boost Gigabit Broadband Vouchers

14th October, 2020 (0 Comments)

The new £4m Digital Borderlands Voucher Scheme has recently gone live for rural homes across Cumbria and Northumberland in England, which means that areas with slower (sub-30Mbps) broadband speeds can now apply for bigger vouchers to help them get a gigabit-capable broadband ISP connection installed.

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150,000 Premises in Wales to Get FTTP Broadband Under New Deal

14th October, 2020 (4 Comments)

Cardiff-based UK ISP Spectrum Internet, which earlier this year revealed that they hoped to build a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 150,000 homes and businesses across South Wales (here), has today announced that they’ve secured enough investment from Infracapital to get started.

£7.66bn of Private Funding Pumped into UK Gigabit Altnets

13th October, 2020 (1 Comment)

A new report from Point Topic and the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) has revealed that over £1.76bn worth of private funding, related to the alternative gigabit broadband sector, was announced during 2019 until September 2020 and that brings the total so far to £7.66bn.

ISP Zzoomm Confirm Hereford as its Next Gigabit Fibre Rollout

13th October, 2020 (9 Comments)

Residents and businesses in the Herefordshire (England) city of Hereford, which is home to around 56,000 people, will be the next to gain access to Zzoomm’s 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network after the ISP largely completed their build in Henley-on-Thames.

New UK FTTP Gigabit Broadband ISP Simply Fibre Surfaces

13th October, 2020 (1 Comment)

Once again we start the day with an announcement about yet another new entrant into the growing market of alternative UK networks, Simply Fibre, which appears to have been partially set up by a familiar name. The operator plans to deploy its own Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) service to homes and businesses.

EE Put Ultrafast 5G Network Live in 12 New UK Towns and Cities

13th October, 2020 (29 Comments)

Mobile operator EE (BT) has this morning announced that their new 5G ultrafast mobile broadband network has just started to go live in the busiest parts of a further 12 towns and cities across the United Kingdom, which includes locations such as Aberdeen, Blackpool and Oxford.

New Operator Broadreach Networks Plans UK Full Fibre Build

12th October, 2020 (21 Comments)

A new company called Broadreach Networks has just thrown its hat into the increasingly crowded ring of operator’s that all intend to build gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband networks, but this one seems to be less of an ISP and more of a wholesale provider – with a focus upon smaller towns.

Wireless ISP Wildanet to Deploy FTTP Broadband in Cornwall

12th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

Fixed wireless UK broadband ISP Wildanet, which covers some rural parts of Cornwall in England, has today revealed that they’re looking to branch out into building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that would cater for “homes and commercial premises in urban and rural areas” within the county.

6,400 Homes in Mid Sussex UK Set for Gigabit Full Fibre Boost

12th October, 2020 (7 Comments)

The Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC) has announced that thousands of businesses, residents and communities across Mid Sussex will soon get access to a new “gigabit-capable” full fibre broadband network, which is being supported by an investment of £2.2m from the Government’s Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) scheme.

Customers of UK ISP Zen Hit by Core Network Problems UPDATE

12th October, 2020 (10 Comments)

Some customers of Zen Internet’s broadband and Ethernet services, particularly those whose connections terminate in London, are this morning suffering from some unusual internet connectivity problems, which means that your line may be live but a few popular online services (e.g. web browsing) will not be fully functional.

Full Fibre UK ISP Hyperoptic Launch Nokia Hyperhub Router

12th October, 2020 (20 Comments)

Gigabit broadband ISP Hyperoptic has today announced the introduction of a new “Hyperhub” router, the Nokia HA-140W-B, which promises a peak theoretical combined WiFi speed of 2.92Gbps but will only be available to new customers who take out one of their top 500Mbps of 1Gbps full fibre (FTTP/B) packages.

Sky UK Trying to Fix Access Point Temporarily Full Router Bug

12th October, 2020 (25 Comments)

Some of Sky Broadband’s UK ISP customers, mostly those with one of their latest Sky Hub routers (SR203), are being faced with an intermittent bug that results in the WiFi connection giving an “access point temporarily full” message and disrupting local connectivity, even though the router is well below its device limit.

H1 2020 BDUK Take-up Data – UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th October, 2020 (40 Comments)

The Government’s £1.8bn Building Digital UK project has now helped to extend “superfast broadband” (24-30Mbps+) ISP networks to 5,293,139 extra premises since 2012 (up by 62,665 over the past 6 months) – about 390,000 of these are FTTP – and the latest take-up data to June 2020 reveals strong demand.

PC Pro Award Zen and Tesco Best for UK Broadband and Mobile

10th October, 2020 (4 Comments)

PC Pro has released the results of their annual 2020 Excellence Awards, which saw Tesco Mobile being named as the “Best Mobile Data Provider” and fixed line provider Zen Internet once again picking up a 17th consecutive win for the “Best Broadband ISP” category. Zen also scooped the “Best Web Host” category.

Telecoms Engineers and ISP Staff Get Queen’s Birthday Honours

9th October, 2020 (18 Comments)

The annual Queen’s Birthday Honours (2020) has just been published and it includes some figures from the United Kingdom’s broadband and telecoms sector, such as two Openreach (BT) engineers who have secured an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) for their services.

ClearFibre and Connectus Deal to Extend 1Gbps Broadband

9th October, 2020 (0 Comments)

Thousands of UK new build homes across parts of the “Northern PowerHouse” region look set to gain access to a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, thanks to a new partnership between residential managed ISP ClearFibre (Telcom) and commercial connectivity provider Connectus.